"The Northern Suburbs Seem to be Quite Frequently Afflicted by Raging Elephants": Identity Fluidity in Beatrix Potter's Tales and Life

IF 0.1 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/aim.2023.0006

J. Rosegrant

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Abstract

Abstract:Central to the effect of Beatrix Potter's tales is her talent at creating fluidity in the boundary between human and animal identities, manifested by her characters' clothing, behavior, and conflicts, as well as by her styles of drawing and writing. This talent flowed from Potter's developmental experience of several jolts to her own identity while her deep connection to animals remained a lifelong constant. The fluidity she depicts between human and non-human identities is consistent with what Loewald (1951, 1952) identified as Freud's implicit theory about the nature of reality—that ego and reality are one during the phase of primary narcissism and gradually separate from each other, entailing a primal relatedness.

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“北部郊区似乎经常受到愤怒的大象的折磨”:比阿特丽克斯·波特《故事与生活》中的身份流动

摘要：贝娅特丽克丝·波特故事效果的核心是她在创造人与动物身份边界的流动性方面的天赋，表现在她笔下人物的服装、行为和冲突，以及她的绘画和写作风格上。这种天赋源于波特几次颠簸的发展经历，而她与动物的深厚联系则是她一生不变的。她描绘的人类和非人类身份之间的流动性与Loewald（19511952）所认为的弗洛伊德关于现实本质的隐含理论一致，即自我和现实在初级自恋阶段是一体的，并逐渐相互分离，从而产生原始的关联。

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AMERICAN IMAGO HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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